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Music lovers in Orlando, Florida are bracing themselves for the first significant concert this year: Anthony Castelo Live!
The world-renowned Filipino balladeer will be charming his fans with his timeless set of love songs on April 1, 2006 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Resort – Airport Ballroom, Orlando Florida. He will be joined by Johnny Mag Sax- sax player, Beegh & Sonny G.
After his memorable offering of an original composition entitled “Long Live America!” to no other than US President George W. Bush in Washington DC, 4 years ago, Anthony Castelo had taken the world stage by storm. He had several successful stints in Las Vegas, and has performed with Hollywood legends like Liza Minelli, Liza Hartman and Chita Rivera, to name a few.
But the singer-composer-actor-turned politician, is never happier when he is front of his own kababayans, who have enjoyed his music for more than 25 years.
The show is for the benefit of the following organizations: Filipino-American Association of Osceola & South Orlando with Danny Lagmay as President, and VisMindaLuz, headed by Iman Bartolo.
Anthony Castelo live in Florida is made possible by its proud spopnsors: Frank’s Air Conditioning and 1st Oriental Supermarket
So to all our kababayans, don’t miss:
An Evening With Anthony Castelo April 1, 2006 Crowne Plaza Hotel & Resort – Airport Ballroom, Orlando Florida. 5555 Hazeltine National Drive, Orlando, Fl 32812
For tickets call: (407) 301-1739 (407) 656-5232
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NEW YORK --- Diverse City Theater Company (DCT) will present its “First Draft” Fellowship (“FDF”) playwright fellow, Kristine Reyes, and her new play, “Queen for a Day”.
The presentation -- in a staged reading format -- will be held on Monday, February 27 at 6:30 pm at the Kalayaan Hall, of the Philippine Center at 556 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor.
The play is directed by Andrew Eisenman.
The “First Draft” Fellowship program is DCT’s commitment to developing emerging playwrights and new works.
Launched in 2005, the 10-week fellowship program provides beginner playwrights the opportunity to learn the basic elements of a play’s dramatic structure--plot, characters, conflict and dramatic language--and its organic relationship to theme.
In her play, “Queen for a Day”, Reyes tackles a young girl’s rite of passage into adulthood brought about by the death and dying of a beloved aunt, exploring the profound changes that affect her relationship with her own mother and her extended family.
Reyes is DCT’s first FDF playwright fellow. She has been involved in the theater for many years performing diverse production responsibilities and has worked with theater companies such as Imua! Theatre, Ma-yi Theatre and Mr. Miyagi Theatre Company.
She assisted director Jamie Richards in DCT’s production of “ The Female Heart” in 2005.
Reyes has completed playwriting workshops at Ensemble Studio Theatre with Curt Dempster and Romulus Linney.
“Queen for a Day” is her first full-length play. Its first draft was developed under DCT’s FDF program.
“Queen for a Day”s reading will feature Liz Casasola*, Mia Katigbak*, Banaue Miclat, Nicholas Stannard* and Lorli Villanueva.
Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on promoting diversity in the theater arts.
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NEW YORK --- While February is a month of heart-shaped chocolates, cards and often marks the beginning or renewal of relationships, GABRIELA Network looks at intimate affairs and the power dynamics that ensue when love is for sale.
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the Purple Rose Campaign Against Sex Trafficking, GABNet presented a screening of Arlene Ami’s award-winning film “Say I Do”.
Ami’s documentary chronicles the journey of four women from the Philippines through the mail-order bride system to their experiences as wives, mothers, and women in a foreign land.
The screening was held at Imaginasian Theater, 239 E. 59th Street in Manhattan.
A panel discussion led by Dorchen Leidholdt, director of Sanctuary for Families, and Josephine Escalante, Esq. on sex trafficking was held after the screening.
The Purple Rose Campaign is an international campaign against the sex trafficking of Filipino women and children. It was launched in 1999 in New York by GABRIELA Network, a Philippine-US women’s solidarity mass organization.
Leidholdt is the director for the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services, Sanctuary for Families and co-executive director for the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
Escalante is an associate at the Washington DC labor and employment law firm, O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, P.C
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